Engaging in International Case Comparison: How Can We Learn Across Borders?

2019

Health systems globally are still struggling to roll out system-wide models of integrated health and social care. While pockets of innovation exist they often remain stuck within single jurisdictions, or, worse yet, never expand beyond the pilot phase. Researchers, providers, […]

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A Roadmap to Assess Patient Experience with Person-Centered Integrated Care: When, What and How?

2019

Person-centered integrated care (PC-IC) is a concept combining person-centeredness and integrated care to better improve care for people with complex health and social needs. The World Health Organization describes PC-IC as “health services that are managed and delivered in a […]

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Lessons in Sustainability: The Re-Imagination of Integrated Care in Ontario, Canada.

2019

Faced with rising healthcare costs and systemic inefficiencies, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) selected six programs, each a collection of acute/ post-acute care organizations, to implement bundled care across the province of Ontario, Canada in 2015. A […]

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Realist-Informed Rapid-Cycle Evaluations for Integrated Care Programs

2019

While integrated care programs are proliferating around the world, rigorous measurement and evaluation of the intended and unintended effects of these programs are rare outside of the context of specific research programs. There are a number of reasons for the […]

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Person-Centered and Integrated Care: A Discussion of Concepts

2019

Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in healthcare that calls for positioning patients as active partners in healthcare rather than passive recipients. This active partnership is even more evident with patients who live with multiple chronic diseases because with […]

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Understanding Transitions of Care in Older Adults with Hip Fractures: A Qualitative Multiple-Case Study in Ontario

2019

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Implementing Integrated Care for Older Adults with Complex Health Needs: iCOACH. An International Network Discussion

2018

iCOACH began in 2012 as research study funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research and the New Zealand Health Research Council. The intention of iCOACH was to understand the steps to implementing Integrated Community-Based Primary Health Care (ICBPHC). The […]

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Measuring the Extent and Drivers of Integration Within Primary Care Teams

2018

Given its core attributes as the gateway to the health system, the primary care sector is increasingly emphasized as a key player in the integration of care across providers and settings. Ontario’s primary care sector has evolved considerably with the […]

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Adaptation and Standardization of Integrated Care Practices to Facilitate Scale-Up and Spread: Insights from Ontario Case Studies

2018

Varying models of integrated care have been successfully developed in different health systems to deliver value-based care; yet many of these models face challenges in scale-up and spread. One critical theme with limited consensus is the extent to which practices […]

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Measuring Integrated Care’s Reliance on Caregiver Support: A Caregiver Experience Survey

2018

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